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Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?

Herman Melville

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A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf – at any rate it is safer from criticism.
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.
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Aid my disillusionment, my friend!
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